It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read New York City's Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers by Michael T. Keene
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Just off the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound sits Hart Island, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves. Beginning as a Civil War prison and training site and later a psychiatric hospital, the location became the repository for New York City's unclaimed dead. The island's mass graves are a microcosm of New York history, from the 1822 burial crisis to casualties of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and victims of the AIDS epidemic. Important artists who died in poverty have been discovered, including Disney star Bobby Driscol and playwright Leo Birinski. Author...
New York City's Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers by Michael T. Keene is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.
This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read New York City's Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers aloud.
New York City's Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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